“You are so nice, Coco,” Da Peng said in his most recent opening monologue, which he delivered primarily in English on Chinese video site Sohu.com.

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Da Peng avenges Coco.

“I almost fell in love with you. My grandpa left me a jade and told me to give it to my soul-mate. I plan to give it to you,” he said. “Alas, we are oceans apart and can’t meet right now, but I still decided to do something for you.”

Da Peng then played a clip of Mr. O’Brien’s show when he first made the jump to TBS from NBC, showing Mr. O’Brien getting assassinated by hit men in a scene that parodied the Godfather.

Da Peng’s gift: avenging the assassination by pretending to gun the men down himself.

This cross-cultural gesture of bromantic love started as a dispute between the two men, when Mr. O’Brien called out Da Peng for copying his show’s opening sequence. Da Peng responded by removing the intro and issuing an abject apology.

Mr. O’Brien, in a peace offering, had his band create a new intro with flourishes like a fire-breathing dragon and spinning Chinese zodiac.